Leviticus 25:1
And Yahweh spake unto Moses in Mount Sinai, saying—
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 19:1In the third month, by the coming forth of the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt, on this day, came they into the desert of Sinai:
Numbers 10:11And so it came to pass in the second year, in the second month on the twentieth of the month, that the cloud lifted itself up, from off the habitation of the testimony;
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 25:1
The law of this chapter concerns the lands and estates of the Israelites in Canaan, the occupying and transferring of which were to be under the divine direction, as well as the management of religious worship; for, as the tabernacle was a holy house, so Canaan was a holy land; and upon that account, as much as any thing, it was the glory of all lands. In token of a peculiar title which God had to this land, and a right to dispose of it, he appointed, I. That every seventh year should be a year of rest from… Read the whole commentary →